I just set up asahi on a M1 macbook I saw on Amazon to use as a mini work computer. I wanted to run Frickbears 3 from GameJolt on it to see if it could work for break time. I tries Lutris but it doesn't seem to work when I added the game to it. Any alternative ways to play the game?

Im asking cause i got totk and akyward sword hd as nsp files witch emulator works rhe best so far ?

As best I can tell the I/O for the NVME is very bad.

It's stuck on the loading screen and when I browse into system specs its showing around 7MB/s read/write.

Any suggestions?

is there still no way to play rocket league on mac other than dual booting into asashi linux?

Is there any way to get Steam ARM running natively on Asahi ALARM? There is another tutorial here showing how to make it run on Fedora— is there any way to make it work on Arch?

For those wondering why your steam games can only run on opengl out of the box or get a DXVK black screen, you need to immediately set the MUVM launch bin file to --gpu-mode venus

ran heavily modded latest fusion fix build downgraded Grand Theft Auto IV, no major issues, would like to set up a reshade however but that's another massive headache.

Would love to test Asahi Linux GTA IV LAN multiplayer sometime.

as for the out of the box solution for vulkan, thank me later because this was not documented anywhere AT ALL.

So, a few months ago I decided to get my macbook M1 storage upgraded from 2TB to 4TB.
I just recently installed Asahi Linux on a 590 GB partition, as I intend to do some light gaming for older Direct X 9 titles that are not compatible with crossover and run poorly on Parallels.

Asahi Linux looks great out of the box, I had a friend over who's been using his linux laptop daily for the past year, and we couldn't figure out why I keep getting black screens on any steam game.

Everything is up-to-date.
Key things I noticed on my reinstall: Vulkan is now running, confirmed via logs, however there are display issues that seem to be preventing the game rendering from being shown.
I've tried going over logs with Claude Code, I still can't wrap my head around this.

Has anyone had a similar issue with Asahi? Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

I'm happy to provide logs.

Some games run okay-ish with OpenGL, and in terms of Asahi dependencies everything looks okay.

I'm running the latest version of Fedora 44 Asahi Remix with the latest mesa drivers.

There are a few games I really want to revisit with a more modern experience in mind as I'm comfortable with modding, but this black screen issue appears to haunt my whole Steam library.

Does dead by daylight work on Asahi linux? How well in terms of graphics can you get? may buy a m2 pro laptop for gaming around the house. I appreciate your efforts in advanced!

I wonder if the EAC will slow it down any etc... would love know if it even boots up and if so how well it performs and more importantly is it stable? since it is a multiplayer game. thanks in advance!

Hey there everyone! I have seen a bit of speculation about whether or not Valve will build their new ARM client for 16k, but it all seems to be on independent forums, and it's not entirely clear if anyone has petitioned Valve to build for 16k yet. I didn't find any discussion about it on the official Steam Client Beta discussion board, so I took the initiative and started a discussion thread there: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/3/657107714318538189/

Valve building the client for 16k would be incredible for gaming on Asahi, but I doubt they will do it if we don't ask for it. If the Steam Client Beta discussion board is the right place to petition Valve for 16k builds, I would like to encourage others to show that they are interested. If it is not the right place (or if such a petition is already underway), I would love to know where the right place is so that I can petition there.

As an aside, I was not quite sure what flair to add. I am either asking for "help" by requesting people show they want 16k or asking a "Question" in "where do I go to show I want 16k".

I installed Asahi Remix 44 KDE Plasma on my corporate M1 Macbook Pro to be able to play some games. But, at least for me, steam (installed by sudo dnf install steam) sometimes reboots every minute or so and games crash or hang up somewhere on loading screen
Any advice?

Hello! My Mac has only 8GB of memory and I was trying to run Limbus Company, which worked, but the game (and steam itself) was closed to due it taking too much memory. Is there any way I can work around this, despite my Mac having only 8GB of memory?

Hi I have a M1 Macbook running the current Asahi Fedora 44.

I have the Sims 3 installed from Steam.

The launcher opens correctly and the game launches but the game is just a black box with sound playing. I could probably click stuff if i could see what I'm doing.

I have been following this tutorial https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1131162350 but it is not specifically for Linux.

I got the DXVK configured per the tutorial but the problem persists. It does feel less glitchy now just still black.

If anyone has gotten this to work please let me know and what you think I'm doing wrong.

Thanks

M1 Max

Running without choosing compatibility fixes.

Runs well, but might misbehave when you pick a different resolution and press "Cancel" instead of saving the changes.

The "allow_tearing" option in Hyprland breaks it for me, so in case you're having problems, set it to 0.

Looks like a great game so far.

I tried to run steam on nixos but i couldn't find any info about it fedora seems to run games fine. wbu nixos? i just cant install steam or lutris on my system...

Hi, I'm trying to get steam to work but it's refusing to open. If I run the steam command I get this:

Failed to set the new pressure in the guest: could not connection to muvm server: No such file or directory (os error 2)
Steam quit
Aborting
Qt says we're gone, aborting=True

I'm using asahi fedora btw. I've tried basically every tutorial I could find on getting steam/wine to work but none of them are working. I know there's a thing that uses muvm and fex but idk how to actually do that; I can't find a working tutorial for it. Anyways I'd appreciate any help on how to get steam to work.

Hi people, I just installed Fedora Remix 44 (GNOME) on my 16GB M2 MacBook Air. Very smooth process, no complaints there. Everything that should be functional, appears to be.

That is, until I try to play Minecraft. I installed PrismLauncher from the Software app (via FlatPak). This is how the main menu looks when I start the game:

As you can see the background is completely warped. When I start a new world, everything looks black:

(don't mind the version, I was trying a slightly older version but this also happens with the recent version)

I'm using a vanilla instance, no mods, no nothing. But also with mods this happens.

Any pointers? Did a search here but nothing came up.

Thanks!

As someone else on this sub noticed, there is now a beta for the Steam client that is built for ARM. All I could find on it was https://interfacinglinux.com/community/sbcsoftware/native-steam-client-for-arm-linux/, but the instructions looked legit, so I gave it a go. You do need a working version of x86 Steam installed first. Just use the dnf package that Asahi cooked. In fact, you can keep that installed alongside the ARM version.

wget  https://client-update.steamstatic.com/bins_linuxarm64_linuxarm64.zip.f523fa87fc6b9b5435a5e7370cb0d664ef53b50b  ; mv bins_linuxarm64_linuxarm64.zip.f523fa87fc6b9b5435a5e7370cb0d664ef53b50b bins_linuxarm64_linuxarm64.zip

Extract the steamrtarm64 folder to ~/.local/share/Steam/

From there, make the directory, modify permissions, and create symbolic links for libvpx.

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/Steam/package && echo publicbeta > ~/.local/share/Steam/package/beta
chmod -R u+rwx ~/.local/share/Steam/steamrtarm64/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libvpx.so.9 /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libvpx.so.6

That last bit did not work, but a comment in the thread had another option for Fedora users. This is a necessary step. You can try launching Steam w/o, but it will fail to get you to the GUI.

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libvpx.so.9 /usr/lib64/libvpx.so.6

Then you can launch Steam! You still need muvm for the 4k support.

muvm ~/.local/share/Steam/steamrtarm64/steam

Steam will still try installing x86 build of Proton for some reason, so you need to add your own build in as a compatibility tool. I followed Steam's official instructions on https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton. You do need to do the hard way, as it will try building the x86 version by default. As for Podman, I have Podman Desktop installed via Flatpak, which Steam thinks is fine. You don't need to touch anything once Podman is installed, as the Proton install will handle making a pod. Also, we have SELinux.

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton.git proton
mkdir ../build && cd ../build
../proton/configure.sh --enable-ccache --build-name=my_build --relabel-volumes --target-arch=arm64
make install

This takes forever to compile. I have an M1 Pro chip. Maybe you have a faster chip, but this will still slam all your cores for a while. You will know it's done when the fans are no longer audible. Also, turns out if you already ran make, you can run make install without worrying your computer will suffer for another 15+ minutes. Who knew. Also, I noticed this right before it said I was all set:

wineserver: using server-side synchronization.
Failed to open /etc/machine-id, error No such file or directory.
wine: failed to start L"C:\\windows\\sysarm32\\rundll32.exe": c0000135

Surely that is fine. I selected the new build as my compatibility tool of choice for running Helldivers 2 and... "Compatibility tool failed". Weird. Hang on, there is more in that one forum I linked. They tell you to grab an archive, which is why I compiled Proton for myself, but now back to what they say to do.

ln -s "$HOME/.local/share/Steam/linuxarm64" "$HOME/.steam/sdkarm64"

Then they tell you to install libsdl2 and libsdl2-mixer. We already have SDL2.

With that done, I tried again. No dice. I tried a Hollow Knight, and it worked just fine, but it's a Linux-native game. This led me to conclude FEX was working. I tried another Proton game. No dice. Another, still not working. The other folks in the forum got it working on their devices, so there must be something wrong on my end.

If someone else wants to take a crack at it, be my guest. My main suspicion is that my Proton build is faulty in some way.

UPDATE: Turns out, the versions of Proton installed by the client work just fine. Actually, they are the only thing that works with the client, at least for me. I tried installing the build of arm64 Proton from CachyOS, but like my own build it did not work. Then tried not specifying a compatibility tool to use and... Sheepy: A Short Adventure works! Oh, and Helldivers II thinks my GPU driver is out of date and crashes. But hey, I was given the option to tell Sony I was doing Asahi stuff, so that part works. IIRC HD2 updated its anti-cheat between the last time I tested it and now, so that might be the culprit, but I suspect it has more to do with all the stuff where the Steam client "can't identify the CPU clockspeed" and "doesn't know the driver-id of the GPU".

I saw that recently steam released their proton 11 for arm beta and steam for arm beta, i tried installing steam, but apparently it only supports 4k page sizes. I was wondering if there was maybe plan in the near future for steam arm to be used instead of the x86 version with emulation layers (like still using muvm but for steam arm)? And would it even have noticeable impact?